The Moz Q&A Community

Hey friend! Have fun exploring Q&A, but in order to ask your own
questions, comment, or give thumbs up, you need to be logged in to your
Moz Pro account.
You can also earn access by receiving 500
MozPoints
from participating in YouMoz and the Moz Blog!

Temporary Penalty possible?

I just heard a story, that a domain with a manuel penalty couldn´t lift it for exactly one year. They cleaned up their links, improved their content and did a few requests to get rid of the penalty but it didn´t work.

After exact one year, they got almost their old rankings back - without any request.

The video Luis shared is perfect. Ryan Phillips information is valid as well.

Here is the point you need to understand. Google desires to have all actions be performed automatically via their algorithm. When Google manually penalizes a site, they typically work with their developers to have the algorithm suppress the rankings of sites with the same behavior. When the manual penalty expires, the algorithm takes over.

If your site is manually penalized for manipulative links, expect your site to remain penalized until you either correct the problem or change domains. Even if the manual penalty did expire, I would expect it to be re-applied again unless Google felt Penguin action was sufficient. That seems not to be the case yet. I have worked with clients who were penalized in 2011 and are still clearly penalized today.

I have seen this also - the whole timeout thing means that you will have a penalty for a fixed period that will end, assuming you clean up your act, if not, then, it will just be reapplied (unless something else like Penguin does the job).

I have seen this also - the whole timeout thing means that you will have a penalty for a fixed period that will end, assuming you clean up your act, if not, then, it will just be reapplied (unless something else like Penguin does the job).

Hey friend! Have fun exploring Q&A, but in order to ask your own
questions, comment, or give thumbs up, you need to be logged in to your
Moz Pro account.
You can also earn access by receiving 500
MozPoints
from participating in YouMoz and the Moz Blog!
Learn more.